A diorama of Pearl Harbor? No problem...

Ahhh yes. I was lucky enough when I was in the Army stationed on the West Coast (Fort Lewis) to get to go visit a high school buddy stationed at Schofied Barracks near Honolulu during the winter of '95. We did the whole sightseeing-and-surfing bit, which included a trip to the Pearl Harbor museum...got to see that dio in the flesh. If it's possible, it was actually even more impressive in person!

that makes everything that I scratch-build look like junk

now if SOMEONE could build...I don't know, maybe a mini Kursk or Stalingrad that would be sweet. I just finished making Star wars miniatures from scratch.( AT-AT, AT-ST, LAAT, AT-RT, HAILFIRE tank crab droid, etc) and am looking for something to build so I don't go crazy because of nothing to build. Maybe I should try something like this sometime.  

Yep, goes back to 1995--FSM's year-end special...

Yeah, I remember that one... It was years ago...

Whoah, is that awesome!, is this from long ago, i seem to remember seeing this many years ago??